The Michigan High School Athletic Association is accepting registrations by mail and online for game officials for the 2013-14 school year and hopes to build on a program started last year and aimed at recruiting new officials from high schools’ current graduating...

MHSAA Championships in baseball, softball and girls soccer will be shown on Comcast Channel 900 on a delayed basis several times over the next few weeks.

Can one save change a soccer season? It certainly can alter a championship game, as Maggie Harma and Richland Gull Lake found out Saturday afternoon in Williamston.

An absolute gem of a high school baseball game, and a shame that one team had to come out on the losing end. That’s sports, and that’s baseball.

Alison Holland might have worried a bit after Grandville’s Sydney Blitchok scored a little more than 14 minutes into Saturday’s Division 1 Final at Williamston. Holland, Troy’s senior goalkeeper, would even admit to that – given that Troy was m...

Top-ranked Lansing Catholic improved nine shots between Friday’s first and Saturday’s second rounds to overtake four-time reigning champion Jackson Lumen Christi at the Lower Peninsula Division 3 Final at Bedford Valley.

It’s natural for coaches to worry about the unknown as their teams venture deeper and deeper into the postseason. Tecumseh softball coach Jeff Nowak is no different.

Father’s Day came early this year for Kalamazoo Hackett Catholic Central golf coach Steve Rider. The first gift came from his team, which brought home Hackett’s third MHSAA championship in the past five seasons at Saturday’s MHSAA Lower Peninsula Div...

Midway through the first half of Saturday’s Division 4 Final, the Grandville Calvin Christian girls soccer team was behind for the first time in 17 games. Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes/Clarkston Everest had a one-goal lead and was undefeated and ranked No. 1 in ...

Be it with the bunt, the big hit or anything in between, Madison Heights Bishop Foley showed – once again – it can beat an opponent myriad ways. The Ventures pounded out 12 hits including four doubles Saturday in topping Grandville Calvin Christian, 12-5, ...

Allie Havers is an overpowering presence on the softball field. But the situation called for finesse. Mattawan’s 6-foot-5 senior was perfectly capable of switching gears.

Grand Rapids South Christian girls soccer coach Jason Boersma likes to shift senior Kayla Diemer between playing defense and forward. Boersma let out a hearty laugh Saturday afternoon when Diemer was asked which position she preferred. He anticipated the response.

Most softball teams ride one dominant pitcher and hope for the best. It never hurts to have an insurance policy, however, because even the best pitchers have an off day.

There’s a big difference between a mere thrower and pitcher. Austin Batka epitomized Saturday what it means to be the latter.

As the scores were being posted at Saturday’s MHSAA Lower Peninsula Division 1 Boys Golf Final, a familiar, painful and sinking feeling came over senior Matt Garland and his Battle Creek Lakeview teammates. "We can’t lose by one stroke again – that&r...

Grand Rapids Christian's Ken Bokhoven has been coaching boys golf for more than three decades. But it wasn't until Saturday afternoon that the longtime coach had the opportunity to celebrate an MHSAA title.

Mickey Moody knew what he was doing when he angered Dundee pitcher Vanessa Ewing. As the Vikings’ softball coach, Moody knows which buttons to push to motivate his senior. When he took her out of the MHSAA Division 3 Semifinal on Friday, he expected Ewing to re...

Connor Foley saved his absolute best for last, much to the delight of longtime Bay City Western coach Tim McDonald. Foley put on a gutsy mound performance Saturday in pitching the Warriors to a 1-0 win over Birmingham Brother Rice in the MHSAA Division 1 Final at C.O. ...

About three weeks into this season, Beal City coach Brad Antcliff began noticing strong similarities between this team and those that won MHSAA titles in 2009 and 2010.

Last season as a sophomore, Garrett Schilling was Madison Heights Bishop Foley’s number two starting pitcher and earned a complete-game victory in the team’s Division 3 Semifinal. Now the team’s ace and a junior, he did exactly the same Friday agains...